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Re:The Origin of the word Daemon (2002) by zerostar07 on Sunday February 04, 2018 @05:31PM (#16305332)
the origin of the world daemon is a lot older than 2002
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Re:The Origin of the word Daemon (2002) by caf on Sunday February 04, 2018 @10:46PM (#16306463)
The meaning of (2002) appended to an article title on HN is that the article was written / last significantly updated in 2002.
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Re:The Origin of the word Daemon (2002) by saagarjha on Sunday February 04, 2018 @05:34PM (#16305348)
> Best I can tell based on my research, the word was first used by people on your team at Project MAC using the IBM 7094 in 1963.
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